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...think baseball is boring, you'll hate the games Greg Maddux pitches. At a time when hitters like Ken Griffey Jr. are thrilling teen fans bloated by a media diet of MTV and asteroid explosions, watching Maddux throw for the Atlanta Braves is like flipping to PBS. His fastball isn't fast (nearly 90 m.p.h. on his best day, vs. around 100 for a Nolan Ryan). His curveball barely curves. He has never pitched a no-hitter. All he does is win games. How? He finds a batter's weak spot and throws right at it nearly every time, which...
...Serious Baseball Person and Washington Post writer Thomas Boswell: "Mark McGwire, Griffey and the rest are fabulous, but there have been others like them throughout history. It's possible, and becoming more probable with each amazing season of legerdemain, that there has never really been anybody like Greg Maddux." Indeed, Boswell said Maddux may be "the most remarkable and historically important player in baseball." Ever? Yes, ever...
...which baseball had a near monopoly on the best professional athletes. The capstone to the Ruth argument is the five-season stretch during which he was among baseball's best pitchers before switching full time to the outfield. He was Mark McGwire, Tony Gwynn and Greg Maddux all rolled into...
Chicago Cubs (Clark 3-5) at Atlanta (Maddux...
National League San Diego (Brown 2-2) at Milwaukee (Karl 4-0), 1:05 p.m. Los Angeles (Dreifort 0-2) at Atlanta (Maddux 3-2), 1:10 p.m. Houston (Reynolds 2-2) at Chicago Cubs (Wood 2-2), 2:20 p.m. Cincinnati (Remlinger 2-3) at Montreal (Vazquez 1-2), 7:05 p.m. Colorado (Thompson 1-2) at Philadelphia (Beech 0-2), 7:05 p.m. San Francisco (Rueter 3-2) at Florida (Hernandez 2-2), 7:05 p.m. St. Louis (Stottlemyre 3-2) at Pittsburgh (Schmidt 3-1), 7:05 p.m. Arizona (Anderson 1-3) at N.Y. Mets (Jones...